parsimonia

See also: parsimònia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parsimōnia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /par.siˈmɔ.nja/
• Rhymes: -ɔnja
• Hyphenation: par‧si‧mò‧nia

Noun

parsimonia f (plural parsimonie)

1. thrift, thriftiness, frugality, sparingness, parsimony

Derived terms

• parsimonioso

Further reading

• parsimonia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• inaspriamo

Latin

Etymology

Alteration of parcimōnia, from parcō (“to spare, save up”) +‎ -mōnia, modified after the verb's supine stem pars-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /par.siˈmoː.ni.a/, [pärs̠ɪˈmoːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /par.siˈmo.ni.a/, [pärsiˈmɔːniä]

Noun

parsimōnia f (genitive parsimōniae); first declension

1. frugality, thrift, parsimony
   • Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum; Paradox VI, 49

     Ō dī immortālēs! nōn intellegunt hominēs, quam magnum vectīgal sit parsimōnia.

     O immortal gods! People do not understand how great a revenue parsimony can be.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	parsimōnia	parsimōniae
genitive	parsimōniae	parsimōniārum
dative	parsimōniae	parsimōniīs
accusative	parsimōniam	parsimōniās
ablative	parsimōniā	parsimōniīs
vocative	parsimōnia	parsimōniae

Descendants

• Catalan: parsimònia
• English: parsimony
• → French: parcimonie (learned)
• Galician: parsimonia
• Italian: parsimonia
• Portuguese: parcimónia, parcimônia (Brazil)
• Sicilian: parsimùnia
• Spanish: parsimonia

References

• “parsimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parsimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parsimonia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• parsimonia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parsimōnia.

Noun

parsimonia f (plural parsimonias)

1. calmness, unhurriedness
2. parsimony, frugality

Derived terms

• parsimonioso

Further reading

• “parsimonia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10